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Restoring my 69 charger after 22 years

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Photos of my 69 charger in progress after 22 years, started back up on it this past june. The last two photos are me when i was 4 years old next to Waylon Jennings general lee wanted a 69 charger pretty much my whole life!

About this Mopar:

I guess I was late to the party with this forum for sure! I had joined others 15 or so years ago but I forget which ones! Someone at Classic Industries suggested I join this page, said I can learn a lot from it and I hope so!. I was asking them about proper mounting locations for the R/T emblem on the tail panel as well as, the charger script emblems on the upper quarter panels. So if anyone has some info please feel free to share it! I have seen some of the quarter panel emblems with rough measurements off of the vinyl top trim. But I do not have that trim so I will have to give them whatever I can find and see where it goes from there i guess.
Long story but I bought this car back in 98 when I was 17. it was a basket case. I sent it off for body work in 2001 and it went to paint jail for 2-ish years and when I got it back I was extremely disappointed. Cracks in the extremely thick Bondo started appearing everywhere.. and I decided to strip the car down.. I found so many more issues and then just started collecting parts until this year.. 2020 has been a roller coaster for many, and my story isn't much different, except my wife and I gave birth to our first kid a healthy baby boy back in May, and then with another crazy turn of events in June an opportunity to help out a family member and their body shop where business was slowing down due to Covid and viola! My charger sitting for many many years is now getting a new lease on life. I do have many progress photos on my fb page "restoring my 69 charger" hope its ok to share that here.. thanks again all!

Latest updates

Status update 6-30-23

Its been a while since ive done update. A lot of progress has been made.. getting ready for glass install soon.. I hope you enjoy the photos! I am still not sure if it will be a general lee or just orange. Feel free to follow me on fb for waaaayyy more photos and topics as i frequently update that site. Restoring my 69 Dodge Charger

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blue69runner
blue69runner
Very nice. Most people do not know what it really takes to restore these cars. Also parts have gone up and up since doing my runner. Hope you get it on the road soon.
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dantheman
Congrats on the birth of your baby and the start of the rebirth of your Charger. Your story is probably shared by 25% of us on this website, a sad but common story of woe. My advice is: keeping plugging away, don't let a week go by w/o doing something, no matter how small or seemingly insignificant. Doing so will keep your eye on the prize and your head in the game. I look fwd to keeping track of your progress. 69 Chargers are always my favorite, I kinda fell into 66/67 Coronets so this is what I know and have oodles of extra parts....Good Luck-Dantheman
 
Sixpactogo
Welcome to FBBO and nice work on your Charger! It's all downhill from here. Well......At least the rust repair is. I can't help you much with the holes for the tail panel R/T but I remember on my 68, I was able to see where the factory holes were from looking at the inside area of the roof panel. As long as you don't have the headliner in, you should be able to see where they were plugged. I have a picture of the holes but not the measurement.
 
blue69runner
Fantastic job. Yes most of us have been down that same road. Cut it out weld it in. Cuss that after market metal and make it work. Drill holes weld her up and grind down the weld's. Put the primer on and sand some more. You should stop and stand back and look because it wont be long and you will be driving that beautiful charger. Good luck and thanks for the photo lay out. Welcome to the site. :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:
 
Challenger340
Our '69 R/T SE is Original and UN-restored, and it is a V88 stripe delete, so if you need any photo's/measurements for 1/4 or tail panel emblem locations let me know by pm.
I'm not here every day, but will try and get back when I do see any message.

Sry I can't help with the sail panel 'charger' emblem locations as ours has the "SE Special Edition" plate instead.
 
Mackinac52
MJOEPFAFR you have got to be a welder by trade, you laid
down some beautiful weld joints. Particularly where you had
to cut the top from the body. That turned out really great IMO,
all the welds look good and the primer doesn't show a bit of a
seam. Really great job putting your Charger back together.
Thanks for another Mopar back on the road. Mike
:thumbsup:
 
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